Meanings of beautiful carving in английском

His profile might have been a beautiful carving in white ivory.

Some of the tombs have beautiful carving on them.

Some of their vessels were eighty feet long, and were entirely covered with beautiful carving.

Then there is so much beautiful carving!

At first glance, the casual observer would take the figurehead for an ornate and beautiful carving of a dragon.

It has supplied bowls, plates, sounding-boards for pianos; and some beautiful carving-thatof Gibbons, for example-hasbeen executed in lime-wood.

The beautiful carving of the mirror frame back of it seems a part of the clock, a deliberate background for it.

The mantelpiece was decorated with articles of curious workmanship and miracles of beautiful carving (the gifts of my patients), variously inscribed.

Her hand, worn and thin, the blue veins relieved under the delicate skin, lay on the white coverlid like a beautiful carving of ivory.

A massive Dutch side-board, covered with beautiful carving, stood facing them; every inch of available space upon it was crowded with bottles, decanters and glasses.

This cathedral front, with its statues and beautiful carving, formed a type much followed during the great period of cathedral-building (thirteenth century) in Europe.

She looked like some of the beautiful carvings he had seen abroad.

In the lady-chapel the colour-wash that had obscured the remains of the beautiful carvings was removed.

Once inside the chambers, light a candle and explore the arcane and beautiful carvings by this soft and volatile light.

This is a pagoda, made of solid marble, and adorned with beautiful carvings all the way up to the top.

I find monstrous things incredibly beautiful , in the way that the most beautiful carvings in Gothic cathedrals are the grotesque carvings.